Folding trousers-creaser.



T. C. TURNEY.

FOLDING TROUSERS GREASBR. APLIOATION FILED 0012.15, 1913.

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TULLY C. TURNEY, O'F NEVADA, OHIO.

FOLDING TROUSERS-CREASER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented J une 30, 1914.

Application filed October 15, 1913. Serial No. 795,353.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, TULLY C. TURNEY, aI citizen of the United States,residing at Nevada, in the county of lVyandot and Statev of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Folding Trousers-Greaser, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a trouserscreaser, and one object of the invention is to provide a device of thistype which may be folded up into small compass, permitting the same tobe carried about in a grip `or;trun k.

Another object of the invention is to provide a structure of the sortabove mentioned which, although foldable when not in use will be stiffand rigid when applied `to the trousers.

The invention aims to provide novel means for connecting the compressionmembers of the creaser and for producing relative movement between thecompression members, these ends being carried out through the employmentof a minimum number of parts.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and toenhance the utility of devices of that type to which the presentinvention appertains.

7With the above and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within thescope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 shows the invention in elevation,applied to a pair of trousers; Fig. 2 is a top plan; Fig. 3 is anelevation, showing the parts as the same will appear when the opposedcompression members are swung away from each other; Fig. 4 is aperspective view showing the creaser folded up upon itself, parts beingbroken away; Fig. 5 is a plan of the leaf which is interposed betweenthe compression members.

As will be understood readily from Fig. 1 of the drawings, the deviceherein disclosed comprises a pair of frames which are applied to thelongitudinal edges of the trousers, to effect a creasing thereof. Sincethese frames are duplicates, but one of them need be described indetail. Each frame comare pins 5 adapted to be received in recesses 6formed in the end facesof the parts 3 adjacent the hinges 4, aswill beappreciated best when Fig. 4 is noted. Secured to the parts 2 and to theparts 3 of the compression members, in lopposed relation, 4are hinges 8,

the hinges 8 of the parts 2 2 `and 3 3 respectively being connected bypivot elements 9,. y One of the hinges 8 carries a lever 10 fulcrumedupon a pivot element 7 and comprising a curved finger 11 adapted tocoperate with a projection 12 on the other hinge, as Fig. 2 will mostclearly show.

Presupposing that the parts are arranged as shown in Fig. 3, one leg ofthe trousers is laid on one of the compression members 1, a leafpreferably in the form of a thin slat 14, shown in Fig. 5, is laiduponthe leg of the trousers, the other leg of the trousers is superposedupon the slat or leaf, and then the other compression member 2 3 isswung over transversely with the pivot elements 9 as hinge joints. Thus,the compression members 2 3 are brought opposite to each other,whereupon they are compressed upon the edges of the trousers bymanipulating the levers 10 so that the fingers 11 engage around theprojections 12. Before the trousers are inserted between the compressionmembers 2 3, the trousers are wet slightly along the portions to becreased, the water used in wet-ting the trousers being cold and thetrousers being cold pressed. In this manner, no injury is imposed on thecloth, as is the case when the trousers are hot pressed. The rule jointhinges 4 knuckle together and prevent the compression members fromfolding inwardly, reference being had particularly to Fig. 1. Further,the compression members cannot fold outwardly, after they are applied tothe trousers, because the leaf or flap 14 is pressed tightly between theopposed compression members. In order to fold up the structure, thecompression members 2 3 are swung with respect to each other from thepositions shown in Fig. 3 until they assume the positions shown in Fig.1, and then both compression members are folded backwardly until theirrear edges abut, as shown in Fig. 4, the hinges 4 permitting thismovement,

l. ln a trousers creaser, a pair of opposed compression members;pivotally connected hinges secured to the compression members; and aclamp movable upon one hinge, the other hinge having an element withwhich the clamp coacts.

Q. ln a trousers creuser, a pair of opposed compression members;pivotally connected hinges secured to the compression members; v

and a lever Jfulcruined on one hinge and provided Witli a finger, theother hinge having a projection around which the finger engages to:torce the compression members to` getlier.

3. ln a trousers creaser, a pair of compression members each includingparts foldable in the direct-ion of their length; pivotally connectedhinges united With the parts of the respective compression members; aclamping device on one hinge; and means on the other hinge for engagingwith the clamping device.

L in a trousers creaser, a pair of compression members, each comprisinghingedly connected parts; a leaf inserted between the compressionmembers; and means for forcing the compression members toward each otherand upon the leaf to prevent relative movement between the hingedlyconnected parts of each compression member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

TULLY C. TURNEY.

Viitnesses Vif. A. VOLFE, O. B. TURNEY.

Copies of this patent :may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C."

